Judy Garland - IMDb IMDb Soundtrack | Actress One of the brightest, most tragic movie stars of Hollywood's Golden Era, Judy Garland was a much-loved character whose warmth and spirit, along with her rich and exuberant voice, kept theatre-goers entertained with an array of delightful musicals. She was born Frances Ethel Gumm on 10 June 1922 in Minnesota, the youngest daughter of vaudevillians ... See full bio » Born: a list of 40 people created 04 Dec 2011 a list of 30 people created 03 Mar 2012 a list of 42 people created 03 Jul 2012 a list of 41 people created 25 Dec 2012 a list of 25 people created 29 May 2014 Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Judy Garland's work have you seen? User Polls Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 7 nominations.

See more awards » Known For A Star Is Born Vicki Lester / Esther Blodgett (1954) 2015 Tellement Gay! Homosexualité et pop culture (TV Mini-Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode) - Inside (2015) ... (performer: "Over the Rainbow") 2014 Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead") 2014 Somewhere Over the Rainbow (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" - uncredited) 2014 Dancing in Small Spaces (TV Series short) (performer - 1 episode) - Steps (2014) ...

(performer: "I Got Rhythm") 2014 The Lego Movie (performer: "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm") 2013 Six by Sondheim (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Get Happy") 2013 Mr Selfridge (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Episode #1.3 (2013) ... (performer: "Under the Bamboo Tree" - uncredited) 2012 Vegas (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Bad Seeds (2012) ... (performer: "Lucky Day") 2012 Upstairs Downstairs (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Somewhere Over the Rainbow (2012) ... (performer: "Over the Rainbow" - uncredited) 2011 Mildred Pierce (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Part Five (2011) ... (performer: "I'm always chasing rainbows") - Best Band in the Land (2010) ...

(performer: "Over the Rainbow") 2010 A Star Is Born: Special Features (Video) (performer: "Gotta Have Me Go with You", "The Man That Got Away", "Lose That Long Face", "Here's What I'm Here For", "Trinidad Coconut Oil Shampoo", "Born in a Trunk") 2009 Doctors (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - O Christmas Tree (2009) ... (performer: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" - uncredited) 2009 Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe") 2009 Hewy's Animated Movie Reviews (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - 9 (2009) ...

(performer: "Over the Rainbow") 2009/I 9 (performer: "Over the Rainbow") 2009 Taking Woodstock (performer: "No Love, No Nothin'") 2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (Video documentary) (performer: "We're Off to See the Wizard" - uncredited) 2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (Video documentary) (performer: "The Trolley Song", "Hoe Down", "Strike Up the Band", "How About You?", "Look for the Silver Lining", "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", "Who?" - uncredited) - Home Is Where You Hang Your Holster (2009) ...

(performer: "Over the Rainbow" - uncredited) 2008 Australia (performer: "Over the Rainbow") 2008/I Milk (performer: "Over the Rainbow") 2008 True Blood (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Mine (2008) ... (performer: "Mine" - uncredited) 2008 The Bread (Short) (performer: "Embraceable You") 2008 Sex and the City (performer: "The Trolley Song") 2008 Pageant (Documentary) (performer: "The Trolley Song") 2008 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "We're Off to See the Wizard", "The Trolley Song", "Hoe Down", "Look for the Silver Lining", "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis", "Get Happy" - uncredited) 2007 Eterna Magia (TV Series) (performer: "That Old Black Magic") 2007 P.S.

I Love You (performer: "The Man That Got Away") 2007 American Masters (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode) 2002 Catch Me If You Can (performer: "Embraceable You") 2002 Martine (TV Movie) (performer: "The Man that Got Away") 2002 Curb Your Enthusiasm (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Chet's Shirt (2002) ... (performer: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" - uncredited) 2001 Hildegarde (performer: "If I Only Had a Brain") 2001 Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (TV Mini-Series) (performer: "Zing!

Went the Strings of My Heart", "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)", "We're Off to See the Wizard", "Good Morning", "Over the Rainbow", "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows", "I Got Rhythm", "The Trolley Song", "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody", "I Played the Palace" medley, "The Man that Got Away", "San Francisco", "Swanee", "Maybe I'll Come Back", "Get Happy" - uncredited) 2000 Annie Get Your Gun Intro with Susan Lucci (Video documentary short) (performer: "They Say It's Wonderful") 2000 Little Nicky (performer: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow") 2000 Wonder Boys (performer: "Good Morning") 2000 Hanging Up (performer: "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas") 1999 Rituals and Resolutions (Short) (performer: "Have Yourself a Merry Lil' Christmas") 1999 The X-Files (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - The Rain King (1999

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(performer: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow") 1998 Little Voice (performer: "Come Rain or Come Shine", "That's Entertainment", "The Man that Got Away") 1998 Quest for Camelot Sing-Alongs (Video short) (performer: "We're Off To See The Wizard") 1997 Contact (performer: "Over the Rainbow" - uncredited) 1997 MGM Sing-Alongs: Being Happy (Video short) (performer: "The Trolley Song") 1995 Stonewall (performer: "Over the Rainbow", "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart") 1994 Monte Video (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Herbst (1994) ... (performer: "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" - uncredited) 1994 That's Entertainment!

III (Documentary) (performer: "Good Morning" (1939), "God's Country" (1938), "Ballin' the Jack" (1913), "I'm an Indian Too" (1946), "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" (1946), "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (1937), "Swing, Mister Mendelssohn" (1937), "In-Between" (1938), "Over the Rainbow" (1938), "How About You?" (1941), "Minnie from Trinidad" (1941), "Who?" (1925), "March of the Doagies" (1944), "Get Happy" (1929), "Mr. Monotony" (1947) - uncredited) 1992 MGM: When the Lion Roars (TV Mini-Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode) - The Lion in Winter (1992) ...

(performer: "The Trolley Song" (uncredited), "The Boy Next Door" (uncredited), "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (uncredited), "A Great Lady Has an Interview (Madame Crematante)", "Be a Clown" (uncredited), "I Want to Go Back to Michigan" (uncredited), "I'm an Indian Too" (uncredited), "Friendly Star" (uncredited), "But Not for Me" (uncredited)) 1991 Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "The Man That Got Away" - uncredited) 1991 Great Performances (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - The Fred Astaire Songbook (1991) ...

(performer: "A Couple of Swells") 1991 Quantum Leap (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) 1978 The Magic of David Copperfield (TV Special) (performer: "The Trolley Song") 1976 That's Entertainment, Part II (Documentary) (performer: "For Me and My Gal" (1917), "Be a Clown" (1948), "Easter Parade" (1933), "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" (1934), "I Got Rhythm", "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (1944), "A Couple of Swells" (1948) - uncredited) 1974 That's Entertainment!

(performer: "Singin' in the Rain" (1929), "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (1946), "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)" (1913), "Babes in Arms" (1937), "Hoe Down" (1941), "Do the La Conga" (1939), "Waiting for the Robert E.

Lee" (1912), "Babes on Broadway" (1941), "Strike Up the Band" (1927), "Waltz with a Swing" (1936), "Americana" (1936), "Your Broadway and My Broadway" (1937), "We're Off to See the Wizard" (1938), "If I Only Had the Nerve" (1938), "Over the Rainbow" (1938), "But Not for Me" (1930), "The Trolley Song" (1944), "Under the Bamboo Tree" (1902), "The Boy Next Door" (1944), "Get Happy" (1930) - uncredited) 1969 Mondo Trasho (performer: "Almost Like Being in Love", "We're Off to See the Wizard") 1968 The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Episode dated 23 December 1968 (1968) ...

(performer: "If You Were the Only Girl (in the World)", "Just in Time") 1968 The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Episode dated 12 August 1968 (1968) ... (performer: "For Once In My Life", "How Insensitive", "Over the Rainbow", "Blues Skies") 1962-1964 The Jack Paar Program (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes) - Episode #3.11 (1964) ... (performer: "Never Will I Marry", "What Now, My Love?") 1963 The Judy Garland Show (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes) - Episode #1.4 (1963) ...

(performer: "Alexander's Ragtime Band", "Be My Guest", "I Wish You Love", "Side By Side", "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", "Y'all Come", "Crawfishin'", "Somebody Touched Me", "Way Back Home", "Nobody's Business", "Way, Way in the Middle of the Air", "Y'all Come" (Reprise), "Swanee" (aka "Old Folks at Home"), "Maybe I'll Come Back") - Episode #1.1 (1963) ...

(performer: "Call Me Irresponsible", "Sunny Side Up", "Be My Guest", "If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)", "My Mammy", "Indian Love Call", "Will You Remember (Sweetheart)", "Italian Street Song", "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)", "The World Is Your Balloon", "At the Moving Picture Ball", "The Old Soft Shoe", "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)", "Maybe I'll Come Back" - uncredited) 1963 A Child Is Waiting (performer: "Snowflakes") 1962 Gay Purr-ee (performer: "Gay Purr-ee Overture", "Little Drops of Rain", "Take My Hand, Paree", "Paris Is a Lonely Town", "Roses Red, Violets Blue", "The Mewsette Finale") 1962 The Judy Garland Show (TV Special) (performer: "Just in Time", "When You're Smiling", "You Do Something To Me", "The Man that Got Away", "I Can't Give You Anything But Love", "'Let There Be Love / You're Nobody Til Somebody

 Loves You'", "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)", "The Trolley Song", "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody", "Swanee", "San Francisco") 1960 Pepe (performer: "Faraway Part of Town") 1956 General Electric Theater (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Judy Garland Musical Special (1956) ...

(performer: "I Feel a Song Coming On", "Maybe I'll Come Back", "Last Night When We Were Young", "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries", "Dirty Hands! Dirty Face!", "Come Rain or Come Shine", "April Showers" - uncredited) 1955-1956 MGM Parade (TV Series) (performer - 7 episodes) - Episode #1.24 (1956) ... (performer: "Our Love Affair" - uncredited) - Episode #1.15 (1955) ... (performer: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") - Episode #1.14 (1955) ... (performer: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") - Episode #1.11 (1955) ... (performer: "For Me and My Gal" - uncredited) - Episode #1.10 (1955) ... (performer: "For Me and My Gal" - uncredited) - The Judy Garland Special (1955) ...

(performer: "Over the Rainbow") 1954 A Star Is Born (performer: "Gotta Have Me Go with You", "The Man That Got Away", "Here's What I'm Here For", "Lose That Long Face", "Someone at Last", "It's a New World", "Trinidad Coconut Oil Shampoo", "Born in a Trunk", "Swanee", "I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)", "You Took Advantage of Me", "Black Bottom", "The Peanut Vendor (El Manicero)", "Melancholy" - uncredited) 1950 Summer Stock (performer: "All for You", "Friendly Star", "Get Happy", " (Howdy Neighbor) Happy Harvest", "If You Feel Like Singing, Sing", "You Wonderful You", "Portland Fancy" - uncredited) 1949 In the Good Old Summertime (performer: "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland", "Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey (I Never Knew Any Girl Like You)", "Play That Barbershop Chord", "I Don't Care", "Merry Christmas" - uncredited) 1948

 Words and Music (performer: "I Wish I Were in Love Again", "Johnny One Note") 1948 Easter Parade (performer: "Happy Easter", "It Only Happens When I Dance with You", "I Want to Go Back to Michigan", "Beautiful Faces Need Beautiful Clothes", "A Fella with an Umbrella", "I Love a Piano", "Snooky Ookums", "Ragtime Violin", "When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam'", "A Couple of Swells", "Better Luck Next Time", "Easter Parade" - uncredited) 1948 The Pirate (performer: "Mack the Black", "You Can Do No Wrong", "Be a Clown", "Love of My Life" - uncredited) 1946 Till the Clouds Roll By (performer: "Look for the Silver Lining", "Who?", "Sunny" - uncredited) 1946 The Harvey Girls (performer: "In the Valley (Where the Evenin' Sun Goes Down)", "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", "It's a Great Big World", "Swing Your Partner Round and

 Round" - uncredited) 1945 Ziegfeld Follies (performer: "A Great Lady Has An Interview (Madame Crematante)") 1944 Meet Me in St.

Louis (performer: "The Trolley Song" (1944), "The Boy Next Door" (1944), "Skip to My Lou" (1944), "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (1944), "Meet Me in St.

Louis, Louis" (1904) (uncredited), "Under the Bamboo Tree" (1902) (uncredited), "Over the Bannister" (1944) (uncredited)) 1943 Girl Crazy (performer: "I Got Rhythm" (1930), "Could You Use Me?" (1930), "Bidin' My Time" (1930), "Embraceable You" (1930), "But Not for Me" (1930) - uncredited) 1943 Thousands Cheer (performer: "The Joint Is Really Jumpin' in Carnegie Hall" - uncredited) 1943 Presenting Lily Mars ("When I Look at You" (1943), uncredited) / (performer: "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" (1943), "Every Little Movement (Has a Meaning All Its Own)" (1910), "When I Look at You" (1943), "Kulebiaka (Russian Rhapsody)" (1943), "Where There's Music" (1943),

 "Three O'Clock in the Morning" (1921), "Broadway Rhythm" (1935) - uncredited) 1943 Strictly G.I.

(Short) (performer: "Over the Rainbow") 1942 We Must Have Music (Short) (performer: "We Must Have Music") 1942 For Me and My Gal ("For Me and My Gal" (1917), uncredited) / (performer: "For Me and My Gal" (1917), "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" (1911), "Don't Leave Me Daddy" (1916), "By the Beautiful Sea" (1914), "When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose" (1914), "After You've Gone" (1918), "Ballin' the Jack" (1913), "How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree?)" (1919), "Where Do We Go from Here?" (1917), "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary" (1912), "Smiles" (1917), "Pack Up Your Troubles" (1915), "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"

 (1863) - uncredited) 1941 Babes on Broadway ("How About You?", uncredited) / (music: "La Marseillaise" - uncredited) / (performer: "Babes on Broadway", "How About You?", "Hoe Down", "Chin Up, Cheerio, Carry On", "Mary's a Grand Old Name" (1905), "I've Got Rings on My Fingers (Mumbo Jumbo Jijjiboo J.

O'Shea)" (1909), "La Marseillaise", "Bombshell from Brazil", "Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones" - uncredited) 1941 Life Begins for Andy Hardy (performer: "Happy Birthday to You" - uncredited) 1941 Ziegfeld Girl (performer: "You Never Looked So Beautiful" (1936), "Minnie from Trinidad" (1941), "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" (1918), "Laugh? I Thought I'd Split My Sides" (1941), "Ziegfeld Girls" (1941), "You Gotta Pull Strings" (1936) - uncredited) 1940 The Miracle of Sound (Documentary short) (performer: "It's a Great Day for the Irish" - uncredited) 1940 Little Nellie Kelly ("A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow" , "Nellie Kelly I Love You" (1922), uncredited) / (performer: "A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow" (uncredited), "St.

Patrick Was a Gentle Man" (uncredited), "It's a Great Day for the Irish" (1940) (uncredited), "Singin' In The Rain" (1929)) 1940 Strike Up the Band ("Our Love Affair" (1939)) / (performer: "Strike up the Band" (1927), "Our Love Affair" (1939), "Do the La Conga" (1939) (uncredited), "Nobody" (1939) (uncredited), "The Gay Nineties" (1940) (uncredited), "Nell of New Rochelle" (1939) (uncredited), "A Man Was the Cause of It All" (1939) (uncredited), "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl" (1909) (uncredited), "Come Home, Father" (1864) (uncredited), "Drummer Boy" (1939) (uncredited)) 1940 If I Forget You (Short) (performer: "If I Forget You") 1939 Bab

es in Arms (performer: "Babes in Arms" (1937), "Where or When" (1937), "Good Morning" (1939), "God's Country" (1937), "I Like Opera/I Like Swing" (1939) (uncredited), "Figaro" (1939) (uncredited), "Broadway Rhythm" (1935) (uncredited), "I Cried for You" (1923) (uncredited), "My Daddy Was a Minstrel Man" (1937) (uncredited), "Oh!

Susanna" (1846) (uncredited), "Mr. Bones and Mr.

Tambo" (1939) (uncredited), "I'm Just Wild About Harry" (1921) (uncredited), "My Day" (uncredited)) 1939 The Wizard of Oz (performer: "Over the Rainbow" (1939), "Munchkinland Medley: 'Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are', 'The House Began To Pitch', 'As Mayor of the Munchkin City', 'As Coroner, I Must Aver', 'Ding Dong The Witch is Dead', 'Lullaby League', 'Lollipop Guild', and 'We Welcome You to Munchkinland'" (1939), "If I Only Had a Brain" (1939), "We're Off to See the Wizard" (1939), "We're Off To See The Wizard" (1939), "If I Only Had the Nerve/We're Off To See The Wizard" (1939), "The Merry Old Land of Oz" (1939), "If I Were King of the Forest" (1939) - uncredited) 1939 From the Ends

 of the Earth (Documentary short) (performer: "Babes in Arms" (1937), "Good Morning" (1939)) 1938 Listen, Darling ("On the Bumpy Road to Love" (1938), "Ten Pins in the Sky" (1938)) / (performer: "Zing!

Went the Strings of My Heart" (1934), "On the Bumpy Road to Love" (1938), "Ten Pins in the Sky" (1938)) 1938 Love Finds Andy Hardy (performer: "In Between" (1938), "It Never Rains But What It Pours" (1938), "Meet The Beat Of My Heart" (1938)) 1938 Everybody Sing ("Down on Melody Farm" (1937)) / (performer: "Swing Mr. Mendelssohn" (1937), "Down on Melody Farm" (1937), "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (ca 1872) (uncredited), "Snooks (Why?

- Because!)" (1937), "Ever Since the World Began / Shall I Sing a Melody?" (1937) (uncredited), "Finale" (uncredited), "Frühlingslied (Spring Song) Op.62 #6" (1842) (uncredited)) 1937 MGM Christmas Trailer (Short) (performer: "Silent Night, Holy Night") 1937 Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (music: "Got a Pair of New Shoes" (1937) - uncredited) / (performer: "Got a Pair of New Shoes" (1937) - uncredited) 1937 Broadway Melody of 1938 (performer: "Yours and Mine" (1937), "Everybody Sing" (1937), "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)" (1913), "Your Broadway and My Broadway" (1937) - uncredited) 1936 Every Sunday (Short) ("Americana") / (performer: "Americana", "Waltz with a

 Swing") 1936 Pigskin Parade (performer: "It's Love I'm After", "The Balboa", "The Texas Tornado", "Hold That Bulldog") Dirk Bogarde - Biography - IMDb Dirk Bogarde Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (1) | Trivia (49) | Personal Quotes (23) | Salary (15) Overview (5) Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde Nicknames The Idol of the Odeon Pip/Pippin 5' 8½" (1.74 m) Mini Bio (1) Sir Dirk Bogarde, distinguished film actor and writer, was born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde on March 28, 1921, to Ulric van den Bogaerde, the art editor of "The Times" (London) newspaper, and actress Margaret Niven in the London suburb of Hampstead.

He was one of three children, with sister Elizabeth and younger brother Gareth. His father was Flemish and his mother was of Scottish descent. Ulric Bogaerde started the Times' arts department and served as its first art editor. Derek's mother, Margaret - the daughter of actor and painter Forrest Niven - appeared in the play "Bunty Pulls The Strings", but she quit the boards in accordance with her husband's wishes. The young Derek Bogaerde was raised at the family home in Sussex by his sister, Elizabeth, and his nanny, Lally. Educated at the Allen Glen's School in Glasgow, he also attended London's University College School before majoring in commercial art at Chelsea Polytechnic, where his teachers included Henry Moore . Though his father wanted his eldest son to follow him into the "Times" as an art critic and had groomed him for that role, Derek dropped out of his commercial art course and became a drama student, though his acting talent at that time was unpromising. In the 1930s he went to work as a commercial artist and a scene designer.

He apprenticed as an actor with the Amersham Repertory Company, and made his acting debut in 1939 on a small London stage, the Q Theatre, in a role in which he delivered only one line. His debut in London's West End came a few months later in J.B. Priestley 's play "Cornelius," in which he was billed as "Derek Bogaerde". He made his uncredited debut as an extra in the pre-war George Formby comedy Come on George! (1939). The September 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union triggered World War II, and in 1940 Bogarde joined the Queen's Royal Regiment as an officer. He served in the Air Photographic Intelligence Unit and eventually attained the rank of major. Nicknamed "Pippin" and "Pip" during the war, he was awarded seven medals in his five years of active duty. He wrote poems and painted during the war, and in 1943, a small magazine published one of his poems, "Steel Cathedrals," which subsequently was anthologized.

His paintings of the war are part of the Imperial War Museum's collection. Similar to his character, Captain Hargreaves, in King & Country (1964), he was called upon to put a wounded soldier out of his misery, a tale recounted in one of his seven volumes of autobiography. While serving with the Air Photographic Intelligence Unit, he took part in the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which he said was akin to "looking into Dante's Inferno". In one of his autobiographies, he wrote, "At 24, the age I was then, deep shock stays registered forever. An internal tattooing which is removable only by surgery, it cannot be conveniently sponged away by time." After being demobilized, he returned to acting. His agent re-christened him "Dirk Bogarde," a name that he would make famous within a decade. In 1947 he appeared in "Power Without Glory" at the New Lindsay Theatre, a performance that was praised by Noël Coward , who urged him to continue his acting career.

The Rank Organization had signed him to a contract after a talent scout saw him in the play, and he made his credited movie debut in Dancing with Crime (1947) with a one-line bit as a policeman. His first lead in a movie came that year when Wessex Films, distributed by Rank, gave him a part in the proposed Stewart Granger film Sin of Esther Waters (1948). When Granger dropped out, Bogarde took over the lead. Rank subsequently signed him to a long-term contract and he appeared in a variety of parts during the 14 years he was under contract to the studio. For three years he toiled in Rank movies as an apprentice actor without making much of a ripple; then in 1950, he was given the role of young hood Tom Riley in the crime thriller The Blue Lamp (1950) (the title comes from the blue-colored light on police call-boxes in London), the most successful British film of 1950, which established Bogarde as an actor of note. Playing a cop killer, an unspeakable crime in the England of the time, it was the first of the intense neurotics and attractive villains that Bogarde would often play.

He continued to act on-stage, appearing in the West End in Jean Anouilh 's "Point of Departure". While he was praised for his performance, stage acting made him nervous, and as he became more famous, he began to be mobbed by fans. The pressure of the public adulation proved overwhelming, particularly as he suffered from stage fright. He was accosted by crowds of fans at the stage door during the 1955 touring production of "Summertime," and his more enthusiastic admirers even shouted at him during the play. He was to appear in only one more play, the Oxford Playhouse production of "Jezebel," in 1958. He never again took to the boards, despite receiving attractive offers. He first acted for American expatriate director Joseph Losey in The Sleeping Tiger (1954).

Losey, a Communist and self-described Stalinist at the time, had emigrated to England after being blacklisted in Hollywood after he refused to direct The Woman on Pier 13 (1949) at RKO Pictures, which was owned by right-wing multi-millionaire Howard Hughes at the time, and he was accused in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee of being a Communist. The director, like Bogarde, would not find his stride until the early 1960s, and Losey and Bogarde would build their reputations together. First, however, Losey had to overcome Bogarde's reluctance to star in a low-budget film (shot for $300,000) with a blacklisted American director. Losey, who had never heard of Bogarde until he was proposed for the film, met with him and asked Bogarde to view one of his pictures. After seeing the film, Bogarde was enthusiastic, and Losey talked him into taking the role, which he accepted at a reduced fee (Losey originally was not credited with directing the film due to his being blacklisted in the States).

A decade later they would make more memorable films that would be watersheds in their careers. It was not drama but comedy that made Dirk Bogarde a star. He achieved the first rank of English movie stardom playing Dr. Simon Sparrow in the comedy Doctor in the House (1954). The film was a smash hit, becoming one of the most popular British films in history, with 17 million admissions in its first year of release. As Sparrow, Bogarde became a heartthrob and the most popular British movie star of the mid-50s. He reprised the character in Doctor at Sea (1955), Doctor at Large (1957). The title of the latter film may have described his mood as a serious actor having to do another turn as Dr. Sparrow between his career-making performances in Losey's The Servant (1963), with a script by Harold Pinter , and Losey's adaptation of the stage play King & Country (1964), in which Bogarde memorably played the attorney for a young deserter (played by Tom Courtenay ).

Bogarde, hailed as "the idol of the Odeons" in honor of his box-office clout, was offered the role of Jimmy Porter in _Look Back in Anger (1958/I)_ by producer Harry Saltzman and director Tony Richardson , based on the play that touched off the "Angry Young Man" and "Kitchen Sink School" of contemporary English drama in the 1950s. Though Bogarde wanted to take the part, Rank refused to let him make the film on the grounds that there was "altogether too much dialog." The part went to Richard Burton instead, who went over-the-top in portraying his very angry, not-so-young man. After this disappointment, Bogarde went to Hollywood to play Franz Liszt in Song Without End (1960) and to appear in Nunnally Johnson 's Spanish Civil War drama The Angel Wore Red (1960) with Ava Gardner . Both were big-budgeted films, but hampered by poor scripts, and after both films failed, Bogarde avoided Hollywood from then on. He was reportedly quite smitten with his French "Song Without End" co-star Capucine , and wanted to marry her.

Capucine, who suffered from bi-polar disorder, was bisexual with an admitted preference for women. The relationship did not lead to marriage, but did result in a long-term friendship. It apparently was his only serious relationship with a woman, though he had many women friends, including his I Could Go on Singing (1963) co-star Judy Garland . In the early 1960s, with the expiration of his Rank contract, Bogarde made the decision to abandon his hugely successful career in commercial movies and concentrate on more complex, art house films (at the same time, Burt Lancaster made a similar decision, though Lancaster continued to alternate his artistic ventures with more crassly commercial endeavors). Bogarde appeared in Basil Dearden 's seminal film Victim (1961), the first British movie to sympathetically address the persecution of homosexuals. His career choice alienated many of his old fans, but he was no longer interested in being a commercial movie star; he, like Lancaster, was interested in developing as an actor and artist (however, that sense of finding himself as an actor did not extend to the stage.

His reputation was such in 1963 that he was invited by National Theatre director Laurence Olivier to appear as Hamlet to open the newly built Chichester Festival Theatre. That production of the eponymous play also was intended to open the National Theatre's first season in London. Bogarde declined, and the honor went instead to Peter O'Toole , who floundered in the part.) Jack Grimston, in Bogarde's "Sunday Times" obituary of May 9, 1999, entitled "Bogarde, a solitary star at the edge of the spotlight," said of the late actor that he "belonged to a group that was rare in the British cinema. He was a fine screen player who owed little to the stage. Dilys Powell, the Sunday Times film critic, wrote of him before her own death: 'Most of our gifted film players really belonged to the theater. Bogarde belonged to the screen.'" Bogarde had won the London Critics Circle's Dilys Powell award for outstanding contribution to cinema in 1992. Appearing in "Victim" was a huge career gamble.

In the film, Bogarde played a married barrister who is being blackmailed over his closeted homosexuality. Rather than let the blackmail continue, and allow the perpetrators to victimize other gay men, Bogarde's character effectively sacrifices himself, specifically his marriage and his career, by bravely confessing to be gay (homosexuality was an offence in the United Kingdom until 1967, and there reportedly had been a police crackdown against homosexuals after World War II which made gay men particularly vulnerable to blackmail). The film was not released in mainstream theaters in the US, as the Production Code Administration (PCA) refused to classify the film and most theaters would not show films that did not carry the PCA seal of approval. "Victim" was the antithesis of the light comedy of Bogarde's "Doctor" movies, and many fans of his character Simon Sparrow were forever alienated by his portrayal of a homosexual. For himself, Bogarde was proud of the film and his participation in it, which many think stimulated public debate over homosexuality. The film undoubtedly raised the public consciousness over the egregious and unjust individual costs of anti-gay bigotry.

The public attitude towards the "love that dared not speak its name" changed enough so that within six years, the 1967 Sexual Offences Act decriminalizing homosexual acts between adults passed Parliament. Bogarde reported that he received many letters praising him for playing the role. His courage in taking on such a role is even more significant in that he most likely was gay himself, and thus exposed himself to a backlash. Bogarde always publicly denied he was a homosexual, though later in life he did confess that he and his manager, Anthony Forwood , had a long-term relationship. When Bogarde met him in 1939, Forwood was a theatrical manager, who eventually married and divorced Glynis Johns . Forwood became Bogarde's friend and subsequently his life partner, and the two moved to France together in 1968. They bought a 15th-century farmhouse near Grasse in Provence in the early 1970s, which they restored. Bogarde and Forwood lived in the house until 1983, when they returned to London so that Forwood could be treated for cancer, from which he eventually died in 1988.

Bogarde nursed him in the last few months of his life. After Forwood died, Bogarde was left rudderless and he became more reclusive, eventually retiring from films after Daddy Nostalgia (1990). Mark Rowe and Jeremy Kay, in their obituary of Bogarde, "Two brilliant lives - on film and in print," published in "The Independent" on May, 9, 1999, wrote, "Although he documented with frankness his early sexual encounters with girls and later his adoring love for Kay Kendall and Judy Garland , he never wrote about his longest and closest relationship - with his friend and manager for more than 50 years, Tony Forwood. Sir Dirk said the clues to his private life were in his books. 'If you've got your wits about you, you will know who I am'." The British documentary _"Arena" [The Private Dirk Bogarde] (2001)_ made with the permission of his family, stressed the fact that he and Forwood were committed lifelong partners.

In the same issue, the National Film Theatre's David Thompson, in the article "The public understood he was essentially gay," wrote about Bogarde at his high-water mark in the 1950s, that "Audiences of that time loved him . . . Very few people picked up on the fact that there was a distinct gay undertone. It says something about British audiences of the time. He had the good fortune to break out of that prison, and it came through the film Victim (1961), where he played a gay character, and through meeting with Joseph Losey , who directed him in The Servant (1963). For the first time, Bogarde's ambivalence was exploited and used by film." Bogarde's sexuality is not the issue; what was striking was that it was an act of personal courage for one of Britian's leading box-office attractions to appear in such a provocative and controversial film.

Even in the 21st century, many mainstream actors are afraid to play a gay character lest they engender a public backlash against themselves, which is much less likely than it was more than 40 years ago when Bogarde made "Victim." Apart from sociology, "Victim" marks the milestone in which critics and audiences could discern the metamorphosis of Bogarde into the mature actor who went on to become one of the cinema's finest performers. Most of Bogarde's best and most serious roles come after "Victim," the film in which he first stretched himself and broke out of the mold of "movie star." He received the first of his six nominations as Best Actor from the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) for the film. Bogarde co-starred with John Mills in The Singer Not the Song (1961), and with Alec Guinness in Damn the Defiant! (1962) (a.k.a. "Damn the Defiant!"). In 1963 he reunited with Losey to film the first of two Losey films with screenplays by Pinter.

Bogarde's participation in the two Losey/Pinter collaborations, The Servant (1963) and Accident (1967), in addition to 1964's "King & Country", solidified his reputation. Critics and savvy moviegoers appreciated the fact that Bogarde had developed into a first-rate actor. For his role as the eponymous servant, Bogarde won BAFTA's Best Actor Award. He had now "officially" arrived in the inner circle of the best British film actors. These three films also elevated Losey into the ranks of major directors (Bogarde also starred in Losey's 1966 spy spoof Modesty Blaise (1966), but that film did little to enhance either man's reputation. He turned down the opportunity to appear in Losey's The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) due to the poor quality of the script).

Philip French, in his obituary "Dark, exotic and yet essentially English", published in "The Observer" on May 9, 1999, said of Bogarde, "Losey discovered something more complex and sinister in his English persona and his performance as Barrett, the malevolent valet in 'The Servant,' scripted by Harold Pinter, is possibly the most subtle, revealing thing he ever did - by confronting his homosexuality in a non-gay context." Losey told interviewer Michel Ciment that his work with Bogarde represented a turning point in the actor's career, when he developed into an actor of depth and power. He also frankly admitted to Ciment that without Bogarde, his career would have stagnated and never reached the heights of success and critical acclaim that it did in the 1960s. Interestingly during the filming of "The Servant." Losey was hospitalized with pneumonia. He asked Bogarde to direct the film in order to keep shooting so that the producers would not cancel the film. A reluctant Bogarde complied with Losey's wishes and directed for ten days. He later said that he would never direct again.

Bogarde co-starred with up-and-coming actress Julie Christie in John Schlesinger 's Darling (1965), for which Christie won a Best Actress Oscar and was vaulted into 1960s cinema superstardom. During the filming of the movie, both Bogarde and Christie were waiting to hear whether they would be cast as Yuri Zhivago and his lover Lara in David Lean 's upcoming blockbuster Doctor Zhivago (1965). Christie got the call, Bogarde didn't, but he was well along in the process of establishing himself as one of the screen's best and most important actors. He won his second BAFTA Best Actor Award for his performance in "Darling." Bogarde went on to major starring roles in such important pictures as The Fixer (1968), for which 'Alan Bates (I)' won a Best Actor Academy Award nomination.

While Bogarde never was nominated for an Oscar, he had the honor of starring in two films for Luchino Visconti , The Damned (1969) ("The Damned") and Death in Venice (1971), based on Thomas Mann 's novella "Death in Venice." Bogarde felt that his performance as Gustav von Aschenbach, the dying composer in love with a young boy and with the concept of beauty, in "Death in Venice" was the "the peak and end of my career . . . I can never hope to give a better performance in a better film." Visconti told Bogarde that when the lights went up in a Los Angeles screening room after a showing of "Death in Venice" for American studio executives, no one said anything. The silence encouraged Visconti, who believed it meant that the executives were undergoing a catharsis after watching his masterpiece. However, he soon realized that, in Bogarde's own words, "Apparently they were stunned into horrified silence . . .

A group of slumped nylon-suited men stared dully at the blank screen." One nervous executive, feeling something should be said, got up and asked, "Signore Visconti, who was responsible for the score of the film?" - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jon C. Hopwood Trivia (49) 1995: Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#78). The day before he died was spent with his friend Lauren Bacall . Apparently they had a wonderful time together. Born at 3:20am-UT He was created a Knight Bachelor in the 1992 Queen's New Year Honours List, and was officially knighted on February 13, 1992. He was awarded a Chevalier De L'Ordre Des Lettres from the French Government in 1982. He was the only cast member of A Bridge Too Far (1977) to have actually served at the actual battles depicted in the film. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Literature on Junly 4, 1985 by St. Andrews University in Scotland.

A British soldier during World War II, he claimed to have been present when the Allies rescued the prisoners from the Nazi death camp at Belsen. However there is some doubt as to whether Bogarde was really there or whether he pretended to have been present in later years. Uncle of Ulric Van Den Bogaerde . Director Joseph Losey originally offered the part of Leon Trotsky in his film The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) to Bogarde. Losey admitted that the script was terrible, but told Bogarde that it would be revised. Bogarde turned the role down, embittering Losey, who felt that Bogarde didn't trust him. Richard Burton , who had worked with Losey on Boom! (1968), did trust Losey enough to take the part, even though he was shown the same script. Bogarde was wise to turn down the part as the finished film was a critical and box office failure, and along with the earlier Losey-Burton collaboration Boom! (1968) made the list of the "Fifty Worst Films of All Time", by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell . 1985: Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.

1984: President of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. His height was measured at five feet eight and a half inches when he was drafted into the British army in September 1939. According to his friend Charlotte Rampling , Bogarde was approached in 1990 by Madonna to appear in her video for "Justify My Love", citing The Night Porter (1974) as an inspiration. Bogarde turned the offer down. For a time in the 1950s, Bogarde was promoted as "The British Rock Hudson ". Longtime companion of actor manager Anthony Forwood . Turned down Jeremy Irons 's role in The Mission (1986). Won a British Academy Award (BAFTA) for his performance in The Servant (1963). Turned down an offer of $150,000 from MGM to star with Natalie Wood in Penelope (1966), in order to make Accident (1967) with his friend, director Joseph Losey . Was considered for the role of Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons (1966).

Turned down a co-starring role for $150,000 alongside Rock Hudson and George Peppard in Tobruk (1967). Resisted attempts to make him Hollywood's new "Spanish" star, and to be married off to some starlet. Turned down The Egyptian (1954) after Marlon Brando had turned it down. Going to the wrong room for a British Broadcasting Corporation audition, the young Bogarde accidentally got a part in a stage play that proved so successful he was hailed as a star overnight. Considered retiring after The Night Porter (1974), which had left him emotionally drained. He moved to Europe in the late 1960s, when he saw his career path lay in the sort of films being produced in Italy, France and Germany, rather than England or America. He lived in France some 20 years, thus fulfilling a childhood ambition. Beginning in 1977, Bogarde was also a prolific writer with seven volumes of autobiography and seven novels all becoming best-sellers. Born Derek van den Bogaerde in the north London suburb of Hampstead to an actress mother and an artist father, he went to university in London and Scotland.

He made his stage debut in 1939, but his acting career was interrupted for seven years by World War II until he was demobilized in September 1946. Turned down Glenn Ford 's role in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962), which turned out to be a critical and financial disaster. Was considered for Louis Jourdan 's role in Gigi (1958). Sir David Lean considered making Doctor Zhivago (1965) with Bogarde, but decided on Omar Sharif instead. In "Dirk Bogarde: The Authorized Biography" (2004), John Coldstream offers four major reasons for Bogarde's failure to become a Hollywood star in 1960. Firstly, the vehicle for his potential breakthrough, Song Without End (1960), was a flop. Secondly, his talents at that time were not seen as being particularly different from those of, in particular, Montgomery Clift , John Cassavetes and Anthony Perkins - nor could he possibly compete as a light comedy lead in the manner of Cary Grant and Rock Hudson .

Thirdly, he had had enough of making formulaic films and was determined to prove himself as a serious actor. But fourthly, and perhaps most importantly, his refusal to enter into an arranged marriage to a starlet in the style of Rock Hudson 's marriage to Phyllis Gates , did not go down well among producers in Hollywood. Quit smoking following a minor stroke in November 1987. Befriended Rock Hudson while filming Campbell's Kingdom (1957), while Hudson was filming A Farewell to Arms (1957). His favourite of his films was King & Country (1964), which reflected his strong anti-war views. Bogarde was very disappointed by the film's commercial failure. Following the death of his partner Anthony Forwood in 1988, he moved into an apartment at 2 Cadogan Gardens in London, where he remained until his death. Scottish director Bill Douglas approached Bogarde to play a small part in his feature Comrades (1986) but Bogarde declined, sending Douglas a postcard saying, "I don't do small parts". Turned down the role of the British padre in The Longest Day (1962).

He had a remarkably good singing voice. He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture. He was a close friend of Rex Harrison , whom he named as the actor who had influenced him most in a 1963 interview with the BBC. In 1958 Bogarde provided a video message praising Harrison when the musical "My Fair Lady" transferred from Broadway to London. During the late 1940s Bogarde was living at No 44 Chester Row, Belgravia, London with a rescued cat called Cliff. While he was there Bogarde received his first contract from J. Arthur Rank, which set him on the way to stardom. The ancestral town of paternal grandfather Aimé Van Den Bogaerde was Izegem in West Flanders, Belgium, where the illustrious family owned the castle Wolvenhof and produced several mayors. However Aimé left Belgium to pursue a Bohemian lifestyle and travel the world, and would tell his grandson Dirk that he was in fact Dutch. Great uncle of singer Birdy . He was among the actors considered for Hans Fallanda in Lifeforce (1985). Frank Finlay was cast instead.

Suffered a stroke after undergoing heart surgery in September 1996 and spent the last three years of his life in a wheelchair. When starring in Doctor in the House, he frequently sought the advice and guidance of the film's camera operator, H.A.R. Thomson regarding his performance on camera,rather than director Ralph Thomas. Bogarde said he learned more about acting for the screen/camera from this, than any other film he had worked on. He appeared in five films directed by Joseph Losey : The Sleeping Tiger (1954), The Servant (1963), King & Country (1964), Modesty Blaise (1966) and Accident (1967). Personal Quotes (23) I'll only work with new people. If you stick with your contemporaries, you're dead. I was as scrawny as a plucked hen. The Rank Organisation did supply me with dumbbells. All I did was put on two sweaters and then put my shirt on. I love the camera and it loves me. Well, not very much sometimes. But we're good friends.

First there was the war and then the peace to cope with, and then suddenly I was a film star. It happened all too soon. Childhood for me was basically a backyard, a spade and a bucket of mud with someone to look after you. Geniuses are notoriously loony, because it's a very fine line between madness and genius. TV? Never! I don't want my audience going for a piss or making tea while I'm hard at work. Cinema is just a form of masturbation. Sexual relief for disappointed people. Women write and say, "I let my husband do it because I think it's you lying on top of me". There's something wrong with actors, we've always been a suspect breed. Socially, I find myself more admissible now in England because I've written books. [speaking in 1979] "The kind of acting I used to do no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee. If you write about Hollywood, you can only write farce. It's so way over the top, you can't believe it. It's Sunset Boulevard (1950), it really is.

And it's cut-throat at the same time. [speaking in 1983] Everyone wants to get into movies, but there aren't any movies left. I've got a good left profile and a very bad right profile. I was the Loretta Young of my day. I was only ever photographed on the left-hand profile. I simply love the camera and it loves me. But the amount of concentration you have to use to feed the camera is so enormous that you're absolutely ragged at the end of a day after doing something simple - like a look. [on fans] The local police were always having to come and remove girls from their nesting places under the bushes. Like an orphan girl who twice escaped from a home at Birmingham. We only discovered her because she used the potting shed as a lavatory which seemed to indicate an alien presence. I think we got her fixed up as a kennel maid, which gave her dogs to love in place of me. [on the Cannes Film Festival] My idea of hell. You see all the people you thought were dead and all the people who deserve to be dead. After a while, you start to think you might be dead, too.

[1955] It seems to be almost impossible to find in this country the type of role which has made actors of the Brando [ Marlon Brando ] and James Dean style. Mine has I think some affinity which hitherto I have only been able to employ in the theatre. [to Russell Harty during a 1986 interview] But I'm still in the shell, and you haven't cracked it yet, honey. [on Simone Signoret ] I suppose it is fair to say that I fell hopelessly in love with Simone Signoret the very first time I clapped eyes on her in a modest Ealing film called Against the Wind (1948). I placed her then on the very peak of her profession and as far as I am concerned she has never budged from it and I still love her dearly. [on Alain Resnais ] Resnais is one of the genius directors, too, however difficult it is to work in his way on a script as complex as Providence (1977). He's the only poet director I'm aware of.

[on Kay Kendall ] She was without question the greatest female clown we ever had -- apart from someone like Beatrice Lillie , whom your audience won't have heard of. Or Cicely Courtneidge . [on Rex Harrison ] He's the actor I've learned most from. Whenever I used to think about how I would play a part I would first think how Rex would approach it. [on actress/dancer Jessie Matthews ] She was a much greater dancer than Ginger Rogers and I thought a better actress. Salary (15)

Question: I Could Go on Singing was the last film of which screen legend?
Answer: Judy Garland